My state of Michoacán has a wide variety of nectarivorous birds. (Nectarivorous: that’s my new word for this week!) Most, of course, are hummingbirds....

Among all the birding locations I have found, Pino Real was my first love. I was just getting back into birding, and had only...

I will soon be just one year short of Sir Paul McCartney’s mythical musical age (64, that is, not his current age), in which...

Last week, I took you to the La Mesa reservoir, the higher-altitude of the two thorn-forest sites on my regular birding rotation. The week...

The reason that La Mesa is my new favorite local birding destination is not just that it is so close to home; it is...

Pithecellobium dulce is a tree with many English names. The most common one, Manila tamarind, is wildly inaccurate, since the tree is native to...

I recently noticed that one of our other writers had included an easy-to-use link to a birdsong recording in one of their posts. This...

Every year, around this time, I feel the need to get an early start and drive a full hour to Cerro de Garnica. That...